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[German Version] 1. Reinhold (Apr 5, 1859, Pööravere, Livonia – Oct 23, 1935, Ahrenshoop). After receiving his master’s degree, habilitation, and paid lectureship at Dorpat (Tartu), Seeberg was considered the great hope of theological conservatives. In 1889 he was appointed to a full profes-¶ sorship of theology, New Testament history, and patristics at Erlangen. After the death of F.H.R. Frank in 1894, he also lectured in systematic theology. As a late aftereffect of the Apostolicum controversy, Seeberg, who had written a massive Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (2 vols., 1895/18…

[German Version] (Jan 14, 1895, Stuttgart – Apr 22/23, 1945, Berlin), received his Dr.iur. from ¶ Tübingen in 1923. He worked in the ministry of transport as an expert on air traffic law; from 1935 until it was dissolved (Aug 14, 1939), he headed the legal department in the air transport ministry, after which he served as an adviser in the civilian ministry of aviation. In 1939 he was appointed honorary professor and head of the Institute for Air Law at the University of Berlin. In 1923 he married a sister of D…

[German Version] ( née Countess Kinsky v. Wchinitz und Tettau; Jun 9, 1843, Prague – Jun 21, 1914, Vienna), novelist and pacifist. From 1876 to 1885, she lived in western Georgia, where she began her pseudonymous literary activity ( Hanna, 1882; Inventarium einer Seele, 1883). Raised as a Catholic but strongly influenced by theories of social evolution, in 1889 she embodied social criticism and pacifist optimism about the future in her programmatic novel Die Waffen nieder! (ET: Lay Down Your Arms, 1894); it was very popular, and she quickly became a central figure in the in…